Undergraduate GPA's

[tusdm2015]

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Hey I have a general question:

Does anyone think/know if dental schools take into account the difficulty of an applicant's undergraduate curriculum when reviewing GPA's? For example, would an admissions committee not think a 3.2 ogpa is low being that the applicant went to, lets say, Harvard? Just wondering...

 

[doc toothache]

It may be reasonable to assume that adcoms have a pretty good handle on say the top 50 schools in the nation; it is unlikely that they will be ranking the degree of difficulty of the roughly 4K colleges and universities.

 

[tusdm2015]

bump... I really want to hear your opinions! 🙂

 

[wantVCUdental]

admission is based on several factors that include gpa, DAT and ECs.
A harvard student even with 3.2 (who got in to harvard without affrmative action) would have no problem getting 23+ AA on DAT and would mos likely have strong ECs

admissions committee will definitely consider the school where you come from. Like doctoothache said, they know which schools are tough, usually some of top 50 schools.

 

[TeethandLakers]

They obviously know how strong each program is for each school. I think they do base it somewhat on where you went and how you did in that specific program. The DAT is also there to equalize all that.